Trending this month

January 13, 2016

AT&T New unlimited data plan comes at a time when most wireless carriers have either eliminated or raised the price of unlimited data plans. Sprint and T-Mobile, the only two carriers that still offer unlimited data to new customers, have bumped up prices.

AT&T's unlimited data plan is back, with strings attached. The first rider is that to get this unlimited data plan, consumers should also subscribe to its TV service (only for customers who also subscribe to its DirecTV or U-Verse TV services. Enrollment began Tuesday.)

So does it technically offer unlimited data : Rider 2 .AT &T will only slow the connection for any customer who is in a data-congested area and who in a given month exceeds 22 gigabytes of data. This is equivalent to someone streaming 50 hours of video and 250 hours of music and then spending another 220 hours on the Internet each month.

Rider 3 : How much is the actual cost :The monthly cost for the data is $60, plus $40 for each line. The fourth line is free. This means one line costs $100 a month, two lines are $140, and then three or four lines cost $180.
.

Who should go for this plan :This is a pretty good deal for anyone who needs a paid TV service and is a heavy user of wireless data. Specifically, it's best for individuals who use more than 10GB to 15GB of data per month
know more on the details of AT &T new unlimited plan here

December 4, 2015

North America remains top by total brand value, up 13% year-on-year, driven by the improving US economy and
increases to the value of some major brands following significant M&As. Asia is the fastest growing region, up 18%
($30bn). Chinese brands lead the way benefitting from an expanding customer base and government support. Middle
Eastern brands grew almost as quickly, by 16% MOBILE is the current leader in the chinese market.By the end of 2014 China Mobile 4G
customer base exceeded 100 million .SingTel is a pioneer in ramping up commercial 4G mobile
services in Singapore

The key growth area for telecom carriers is data.
Customers no longer see high speed data traffic as an
additional service, but rather as a necessity.
Developing a profitable and efficient 4G mobile network is
a challenge that only a small number of telecoms
worldwide have addressed successfully. The huge
amount of funding required for Capital Expenditure has
grown debt levels of some carriers, consequently leading
to instability and financial difficulties. Different licences
needed and slow 4G mobile spectrum auctions further
impede telecoms efforts in developing their new
generation mobile networks.

December 3, 2015

THE BIGGEST MOST POWERFUL 15 COMPANIES IN CHINA :China is a nation that continues to break global records. It is the world!s largest car market
(14 million units sold), has the largest number of Internet users (400 million against the
entire US population of 300 million), and its GDP is on the point of overtaking Japan to
become the world!s second largest economy after the US. China is now home to among the best global brands.The IPO of Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) in Hong Kong and Shanghai on July 19 this
year (and which is reflected in this report) means that China is now home to four of the
world's 10 biggest banks by market capitalization. This has happened only five years
since the country's first major state-owned lender – Bank of China - went public in recordbreaking
IPO launches in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

China Mobile is the most valuable China brand, valued at US$22.62 billion. According to latest data the second most valuable China brand is banking giant ICBC, which has a brand value of US
$16.947 billion.The second most valuable sector is Telecommunications with a combined brand value of
US$37.436 billion, or 17.5% of the total. Meanwhile Insurance-related brands make up the third most valuable sector among the top 100 brands
with a combined brand value of US$16.217 billion. China Life is by far the most valuable
brand in this sector, with a brand value of US$11.073 billion.

November 5, 2015

While Telecom network providers take great care in covering the metropolitan areas, small cities
often lag behind. Is this true for the United Kingdom too?

How does Mobile Network speed in terms of web page downloads compare in UK .In 2015 the Mobile Network
Test in the UK compared 3 telecom majorsThree,
O2 and Vodafone.The above chart shows the ranking of mobile Networks in term of web page downloads on their mobile

In 2014 in a similar mobile
network test showed EE as the clear
winner followed by Three with the best
voice performance. O2 and Vodafone
followed almost head-to-head.

1)The test
also displayed much better performance
in metropolitan areas than in smaller cities
and on connecting roads. That fact
and the population of 8.6 million people
are good reasons to look at the results of
the largest city London separately

2)One of the most often used services is web surfing
which was tested with a mixture of 9 popular live
and one static web-pages.
The winner of last year‘s benchmark EE managed
to improve its session success ratio for live web sites
from 97 to 99 %.

a)The average session time to
download a popular live web site decreased from
4.1 to 2.7 seconds.

b)The other three operators
showed almost identical session times between 3.1
and 3.2 seconds, but on reliability Vodafone clearly
ranked second with a healthy success ratio of
97.4 %, while Telefonica followed with 96.8 %.

c)With
an error rate of more than 5 % , all three telco network carriers needs quite catching up to do

February 14, 2015

This chart from statista shows the operating revenue made from wireless services offered by major U.S. telecommunication providers from 2008 to 2013. In 2011, AT&T's wireless operating revenue amounted to around 63.21 billion U.S. dollars